Re: [Duplicity-talk] Using `remove-older-than` correctly

[Olivier Berger]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:49:40 +0800, howard chen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a folder that need to backup
> 
> 1. I want to alway have a full backup of that folder, no matter the
> files have been untouched for a year or more
> 2. I want to keep 30 day of history to rollback, e.g. I can alway
> rollback to the backup of last week
> 
> Currently I am using
> 
> 
> duplicity --sign-key '123' --encrypt-key 'ABC' /backup s3+http://xxxx
> duplicity remove-older-than 30D s3+http://xxx
> 
> 
> And today I found out the `remove-older-than` will remove all the
> files if they keep unchanged for more than 30days, but not the 30 days
> history I mentioned in (2).
> 
> So what command(s) I should be used?
> 

--full-if-older-than may be what you need... see manpage.

Notice also the remove-all-but-n-full and remove-all-inc-of-but-n-full
that may help achieve what you need, hopefully.

Best regards,
-- 
Olivier BERGER 
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Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France)